November, 1904
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Thursday, November 10,
1904 - The Madras Pioneer (Madras, OR)
Bend, A
New Oregon Town
Bend, Crook
county, is seven months old; that is, within seven
months the town has developed into what it is
today, with its population of 600 or more
people. It is quite difficult to estimate
the population correctly as there are dozens of
new comers locating there daily.
Bend will
never make a New York or a Chicago, but will
without doubt, grow into a very active,
enterprising little city equal to many of the
towns in the Northwest. The location is both
beautiful and healthful. If a person desires
an excellent place to fish and hunt, it can be
found at Bend. If he chooses a health resort
for himself or family, he will find Bend a
suitable location. If it is for business
purposes he can find as profitable an investment
in or around Bend as can be had in the great
Pacific Northwest.
One thing that
looks genuine about the situation at Bend is the
fact that the companies, who own and control the
town-site and who are pushing the development
work, are composed of young men who were
prosperous in the Eastern States and who left
their homes and closed out their business
interests in order to enter larger fields. This is
not all. They are putting in their own money to
the extent of about $4,000 per day for
construction work alone.
A. L.
Goodwillie, of Chicago, has the sale of the
town-site property and has erected for himself an
elegant cottage on the banks of the Deschutes
river. W. B. Guerin, Jr., of Ohio, is at the head
of the Deschutes Irrigation and Power Company, and
with his law partner, O. C. Steinemann, has the
sale of the irrigated land contained in the
Deschutes segregation.
These
gentlemen have won the utmost confidence of the
public which they justly deserve, and; as a
consequence, are disposing of the property faster
than it can be irrigated. The town buildings are
being erected so fast that it is impossible for
the Goodwillie mill to turn out sufficient lumber
to supply the demands of the people who are
waiting with eagerness to complete the business
houses already under construction. Oregon
needs more such companies to push forward the
development of the great resources of the
Northwest. - Pacific Homestead
Contributed by The
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